That would be a nice way to sort the men from ther boys so to speak but unfortunately you are wrong.

Mr Sturrock said it best:

Ian Sturrock (7/25/2006)

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That's a fairly recent bit of flangy retro-fitting applied to the terms. Their origins are quite different. In the UK, it's traditionally been known as LRP, so you'll hear older LRPers using the term. In the US and elsewhere, the term has traditionally been "LARP" whether applied to Vampire/MET games (non-live combat) or NERO, AMTGARD etc. (live combat). The MET rulebooks all use "LARP." People who've come into the hobby more recently in the UK are more likely to say "LARP" because of the popularity of MET in the UK. Some of them then heard people say "LRP" and so started (wrongly) assuming that one term referred to live-combat games and the other to scissors-paper-stone games. In fact the two are interchangeable, and though I grew up on LRP, and "LARP" still sounds odd to my ears, I don't think it's worth getting snobbish about people who use one term or t'other (unlike Tart. )

I've been knocking about in LRP alomst 20 years now and LARP is new. Even worse it's an American term. I HATE the term LARP. Us Brits invented LRP so lets keep it LRP.

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RL: Mr Sofar

Curved core weaponry and bespoke stuff.

ShelfordFX

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Crimson Requiem: Crew

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Ouch.

Incidently should there be T-shirts with 'Keep LRP British' or 'LRP - Made in the UK' on?

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RL: Mr Sofar

Curved core weaponry and bespoke stuff.

ShelfordFX

Ascendancy LRP: Redvers Fenn-Cooper

Crimson Requiem: Crew

Real Life: Doug McKerracher

Quis custodiet ipsos custard?